The Ballad of Nearly Headless Nick

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In 1992, in around his five-hundreth Deathday, the ghost of Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington authored a ballad titled "The Ballad of Nearly Headless Nick"[1] explaining why he was sentenced to beheading and how his head had (nearly) come off in a botched execution: